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My I-Con Schedule

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Yes, once more I will be a guest at I-Con this coming weekend. Unfortunately, the calendar being what it is, I need to limited my time at the show to one day, Saturday. On Sunday, I am scheduled to emcee the Democratic Town Committee’s Century Club Brunch and don’t want to miss out on the […]

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40 Days Down, 20 to Go

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Here we are two-thirds of the way through my student teaching assignment and I feel like I’ve hit a nice routine. I am only periodically overwhelmed by the amount of work to be done and am staying nicely ahead on the planning.I suspect some of the good mood is because I spent all week in […]

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For those near Philadelphia

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I’ve been remiss in mentioning that I will be the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society’s November 11 meeting. I’ll be joining a long line of distinguished guests so it’s an honor.The meeting begins at 8 p.m. while I get the blather at 9. Fortunately, Star Trek: Voyager – Distant Shores should be just coming out so […]

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Marketing Dilemmas

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I’ve been thinking a lot about marketing of late. Over at Crazy 8 Press, we continue to try and figure out how best to get the word our when we have new material to offer. There are five of us with Facebook pages, blogs, and Twitter accounts plus our C8 website and Twitter feed. Still, […]

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Last Week in Student Teaching

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Last week was another packed week as I find myself staying later and later, prepping and teaching and grading and generally enjoying myself. On Monday, I had my second formal observation from my advisor and while I thought the class went well enough (something my Cooperating Teacher noted), he missed some key details leading to […]

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My Lunacon Schedule

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This weekend, since I can’t be with Kate to celebrate her birthday, I will distract myself by appearing at Lunacon. Held at the Rye Hilton in Westchester County, NY, it is one of the oldest run literary conventions. For me, it’s a chance to meet fans I don’t see at many other cons and a […]

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And the Fall TV season begins

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I spent my high school years traveling in a variety of cliques and I prided myself on how easily I moved among them. My oldest, closest friends from elementary school were starting to drift into different interests so we weren’t as tight as we used to be. By 11th grade, I got myself straightened out […]

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Halfway There

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Last Friday marked by 31st day as a Student Teacher, putting me just over the halfway mark. Weird.This was an odd week thanks to the state-mandated CAPT testing for 10th graders. The abbreviated schedule varied by day and it took me a while to get a hang of things as I somehow managed to confuse […]

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Which is the Real DC Earth?

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Recently, DC Comics has made a big deal over the fact that the Earth where the New 52 comics have been telling stories is the Main Earth. This is to clearly separate it from the Earth-One seen in the hardcover graphic novels written by J. Michael Straczynski – the first of which, Superman came out […]

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